Most recently published pieces
- When Force-Feeding Is Torture: After years of litigation, Type Investigations and The Nation have acquired footage of a force-feeding at a federal prison. It shows treatment that may amount to torture.
The Nation • March 2023 - Building Jewish Life Behind Bars: A new organization called Matir Asurim provides Jewish resources in prisons and resists the policing of Jewish identity
Jewish Currents • February 2023 - Brittney Griner Faced Brutal Conditions in Jail—but So Did Viktor Bout
The Nation • December 2022
Selected features stories
- Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars
NBC News • December 2021 - Prisoners, Doctors, and the Battle Over Trans Medical Care: Those who are incarcerated are suing for their right to gender confirmation surgery—if deemed necessary. Meet the psychiatrist who almost always says it’s not
Wired • July 2021 - Prisoners Endure A Nightmare ‘Gulag’ In Lower Manhattan, Hidden In Plain Sight
Gothamist • June 2018
Selected reporting
- Meet The “Fringe Extremists” Pushing Flawed Science To Target Trans Kids
Buzzfeed News • April 2021 - For Abused Women, a Pandemic Lockdown Holds Dangers of Its Own
The New York Times (print) • March 2020 - ‘This is where my everything is’: US citizen suddenly faces deportation
The Guardian • November 2019
Selected essays, commentary, reviews & interviews
- Indefinite silence: How SAMs imperil press freedom
Columbia Journalism Review • January 2021 - “An Ordinary Muslim” and the Clichés of Culture Clash on Stage
The Intercept • March 2018 - Trust in Instinct: Sarah Schulman embeds shame within the emotional landscape of Conflict Is Not Abuse
The New Inquiry • May 2017
Book chapters
- We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier and Michael Kazin. My chapter: “Who Gets to Be Safe? Prisons, Police, and Terror.”
The New Press • January 2020
Full list of work available here.
Aviva Stahl 